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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Bordeaux or Palm Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bordeaux for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Bordeaux’s own page.

Choose Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux 50, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Palm Beach 47: Bordeaux leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Palm Beach 45: Bordeaux leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, Palm Beach 32: Bordeaux leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux and Palm Beach are level on 58.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Palm Beach 55: Bordeaux leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Palm Beach 32: Bordeaux leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, Palm Beach 12: Bordeaux leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Palm Beach 45: Bordeaux leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Palm Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bordeaux
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bordeaux in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxPalm Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation1 m2 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxPalm Beach
City population267,9919,245
People per km²5,425322
Museums within 10 km184
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.